The Indianapolis journal., 1887-07-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

II may not be known by everyb body that there
| is no real black false hair. Black hair taken
from the head fades shade and has to be col
| ored to match even the head it was taken
from.
| IT is fact worth noting that of the eight
Justices now the Supreme Court bench, four
| of them, Waite, Miller, Field and Bradley, are
over seventy years OF age.
| EX-SENATOR DORSEY has concluded to do
business in New York and has taken an Office in
the AIdrich Court Building, Broadway. The
| view from his Office windows overooks the North
| river and includes the statue of Liberty.
THE becoming brown which soiourn in the
| country has given to Mrs. Cevelands compl ex-
| ion makes her look more than ever like Span
| lard. She is called Donna Frances" by many
| of the undergraduates at Wells College
GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, the air-brake man,
has taken cut about 1900 patents A few of
these upon devices which he purchased from
their inventors, but the great majority were
original inventions and improvements. For the
last two three years natural gas and electrici-
ty have furnished the two great fields In which
he has labored.
Ex-GovERNoR WILLIAM SPRAGUE is residing
in retirement at Canonchet his palatial home
near Narragansett Pier, the sole remnant of his
once vast fortune His financial circumstances
not such to maintain the place in its for
mer grandeur, and it's deserted corridors and 81
lent halls must be suggestive wandering place
for the moody and eccentric war Governor
A CURIOUS experiment INDUCED In by young
men about town who have feeling of resent
ment towards street bands is to get pieces of
lemons, stand before the musicians just they
prepare to play and begin to suck the sour fruit.
1t is said that no musician can shape his lips to
blow his horn when looking at man eating
lemons, and much money is usually wagered on
the result of the experiment.
BISHOP CLARE of Rhode Island, said in a re-
cent convention address: "Since entered upon
the duties of my Office here in Rhode Island
ffty-two of our bishops have been removed from
the earth, fifteen of the number being my
juniors in the date of their conservation There
were thirty two members of the House of Bish-
ops when first entered there, and of these there
are but two left-the Bishops of Connecticutand
California"
NEXT to Dorothy Whitney, perhaps the most
famous baby in the country is the promising son
of Gen. S. B. Buckner, of Kentucky, Democratic
candidate for Governor. Mrs. Buckner and the
baby at White Sulpher Springs, Va.
Mrs. Buckner has not been well for some time,
and she hopes to regain her health in the brac-
ing air of her native State The baby is plump,
handsome boy, eleven months DID, and physical
ly worthy of his present political importance.
PETER FINNERTY, who died last week at
Waukesha, Wis, left $500, 900 to his heirs Four
teen years ago he was working poor farm in
Iowa and afterward became deck-hand on a
boat running between keokuk and ST. Louis.
Finally he went west. became miner. discov-
cred the Little Chief" mine at Leadville Col,
and by shrewd management made large fort
une. He could neither read nor write His wife
away from him in his days of poverty. Fin
nerty a generous man and his simplicity of
character not spoiled by success
LORD PoRCHEsTER, eldest of the Earl of
Carnarvon, is of age this week. and comes at
once into the enjoyment of the splendid Ches-
terfield property, which was left by the seventh
Earl of Chesterfield to his sister, the late Lady
Carnarvon, for her life, and then TO her children
in strict entail. The property now yields more
than 5000. 00o year. When Lord Porchester
iEherits his fathers estates, ne will have least
$3.50. 900 year more. Several thousand match
making mammas in En- gland thinking how
to get his Lordshlp acquainted with their daugh-
ters.
HENRY CLEws, the banker, has been thirty
one years in business, and mas never had an op-
portunity to visit the home of his youth in
England He has just wound up successful
campaign in the street, and avows that he will
have a vacation, sure, this summer. He has
beautified The Rocks" his Newport home, to
the of $50, 900. and will spend half his
time there during the hot months. A wire from
his library. communicating with his Wa-stree
office, will tell him about the stock market just
as quickly as if he at the elbow of his
fdential man, Mr. Harrison Starr
WORK is going forward rapidly on the Gam
beta monument in the Place du Carrousel
Paris The architectural part of the monument
is quite finished, and the statute of the dictator
is almost complete. Gambetta is represented as
restoring to life mis- country with the breath of
his genius; the figure is work of remarkable
power. The other half of the monument. which
objection. It represents gigantic symbol Of
the Gallo cock crowirg with crowns of laurel
and oak at its feet Behind the bird are arms